StromBecker Chance Vought F7U Cutlass, C49-89
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$68
Beautiful kit from the 1950s made of quality hardwood - no balsa. The carving is done to the final shape. When complete it makes an impressive model and comes with a unique display stand. Features all carved and smooth wood parts, clear plastic canopy, full color decals, glue, wood filler, sandpaper and special display stand. Never started. Inventoried complete with all parts and plans. Before plastic kits were introduced, Strombecker was famous as the premier hardwood preshaped model manufacturer. In the 1940s and 1950s, Strombecker kits were flawlessly engineered but not inexpensive. All wooden parts are hardwood and are precarved to shape - you only had to glue, sand and paint to finish them.
ZTS RWD-5 Bis, 1/72, S-05
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
$8
Nicely molded kit of this very successful light aircraft. Includes full cockpit, optional parts and decals for two versions and is molded in light green and clear. Includes a large, comprehensive decal sheet. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Welsh Boeing737-330 Lufthansa or Condor, 1/144, SL43
Vacuform Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$24
Very high quality injection molded / metal and vacuform kit with metal details and full decals. Features injection molded wings, engine pods and stabilizers, vac fuselage, metal struts, engine cowls, fans, nose and main gear wells, wheels and gear doors. The kit has never been started. All small parts still in the factory sealed bags. The large parts were never factory sealed have been inventoried complete including decals and instructions.
Pegasus Supermarine Spitfire F22/24 - 603 'City of Edinburgh' Sqn 1950 - Bagged, 1/72, 002
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed
$16
Still factory sealed. Limited edition injection kit. Features very nice moldings with fine recessed panel lines and full decals.
AMT Douglas AD-4W Skyraider - US Marines / Royal Navy and US Navy, 1/48, 8622
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good++
$35
Detailed kit of one of the first Advanced Early Warning radar aircraft for the Navy. Builds all three versions: Marines VMC-1 from the Korean War, British Royal Navy 849 Sq and US Navy VC-11 from the Korean War. US versions are from 1950 (Korean War) and Royal Navy version is Squadron 849, 1956. Features detailed interior, landing gear, wing mounted fuel tanks and 65 parts. The kit has never been started. Internal factory sealed bags including decals and instructions.
Lincoln Douglas DC-3 - Sabena, 1/96, 111
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
$44
Nicely made small scale kit with great box arts. Dates from the mid 1950s to the very early 1960s. Never started. The small parts are still in the internal factory sealed bag, and the larger parts that were never sealed have been inventoried complete including decals and instructions. Lincoln was based in Hong Kong. Plastic kits were not the primary business, but they established quite a line of them before discontinuing production in the late 1960s/early 1970s. Many molds moved to Kader, also in Hong Kong, who reissued the line. Many molds eventually found their way to the USA either through ATP (who purchased the excess kit stock when Kader sold out) or IM.
Air Lines Hotspur II - General Aircraft Ltd Glider - (ex Frog), 1/72, 7904
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$18
This is a well detailed model from the original FROG molds. Features 'good' cockpit, pilot figure, separately molded rudder, elevators and ailerons, optional position cabin door, landing gear & skids and more. With paint guide and full color decals. Never started. Inventoried with all parts, decals and instructions present. Box art is by the famous Jo Kotula who did 1930s covers for the magazine 'Model Airplane News' and later the Aurora box art of the late 1950s. Air Lines kits are all Frog molds that the Lines Brothers imported to the USA between 1964-1966. The kits, decals and instructions were made in England, then imported to the USA where Testors created the boxes with the colorful trading cards on the back. There are one or two trading cards on each box which show the boxart but not the advertising/logo. Some kits contain a Testors color painting guide also, but it is not specific to any model.
Mach 2 S.O. 6000 Triton - First French Jet Aircraft - (SO-6000), 1/72, GP005
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$22
From 1991 and a good model of the First French Jet Aircraft. Never started. The parts are either still in the internal factory sealed bag or have been inventoried complete. Includes decals and instructions.
Airmodel Hawker Sea Fury T20 / Hawker Typhoon F1A / Spitfire Mk XVI and Beaufighter F.X Thimble Nose Conversions - Bagged, 1/72, 105
Vacuform Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$8
Never started. Complete with all parts and instructions. Conversion kits require a base injection molded kit to complete. Parts included are for the conversion only. Some scratchbuilding is required.
Airfix Mitsubishi Ki-46-II Dinah - Craftmaster Issue, 1/72, 1226-50
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$24
1960s black-end Craftmaster issue with great boxart. Very nicely molded kit with no rivets and good cockpit detail. Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
E&B Valley Railroad Co D&RGW Stock Car With Trucks HOn3 Narrow Gauge, 1/87, 3100
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$28
Superb injection molded kit with plastic truck set. Very finely detailed with a high parts count for such a small model. While model aircraft mold makers and molding machine operators were claiming that you could not mold parts this fine, several model train companies, like E&B Valley, were busy proving them wrong. This is kit for the serious model railroader who demands prototype fidelity. Molded in black plastic. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes instructions. Please note that these E&B kits did not come with decals.
Monogram Phantom Of The Opera Luminators Glow In The Dark - (ex Aurora), 1/8, 1624
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc+
$39
Still factory sealed. Great builder kit dated 1992 and made from the original Aurora molds. In 1977 Monogram purchased the Aurora molds and only reissued the best and most commercially viable models. This monster and others were issued in the early 1990s, probably after re-negotiating the license agreement with Universal (as hinted to on the box side). Molded in a stunning glow-in-the-dark plastic that also glows with a black light.
Pyro IJN Musashi Battleship - Table Top Navy, 1/1200, C392-50
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$20
Small scale ship kit from the Table Top Navy series. Very nicely done kits for their time. Can be built full hull or waterline. Features propeller and shaft detail, separately molded turrets, stacks, many superstructure parts and more. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and instructions. Many of the Pyro kits came from Eagle (then Eaglewall) molds in England. Eaglewall went out of business around 1962 and Pyro acquired at least some of the molds. Pyro reissued some of these kits in the mid 1960s with AJ Rudisill artwork. Evidently the line was successful, as Pyro then cut some of their own molds and expanded the series significantly. The earlier issues have the full color artwork and a three digit part number. Later issues have a 'B' or 'C' in front of the three digit kit number; some have simplified box art that is a modification of the original Rudisill paintings by painting out most of the background. Pyro issued these kits into the late 1960 when Life-Like took over the molds. Some were reissued by Life-Like.
Pegasus Boulton Paul Balliol T2 - Bagged, 1/72, 2006
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$18
Limited run injection molded model featuring fine recessed panel lines cast metal detail parts, injection molded clear canopy and decals. Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
AV USK Polikarpov I-152 - Soviet Or Finnish Air Force - Bagged, 1/72, AV1002
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$24
Still factory sealed. Limited edition kit includes a very nice paint guide and decals for two Soviet and one Finnish Air Force versions.
PZW TS-11 Iskra, 1/72
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$18
Early kit of this once-common two seat training jet. Features raised panel lines, clear canopy, full landing gear and Polish decals. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Huma Model Bucker Bu-131 - Swiss Civil / German Civil / French Civil / Luftwaffe, 1/72
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$18
Still factory bag sealed. Nicely molded and detailed. Includes large decal sheet for several Luftwaffe aircraft and civil aircraft from Switzerland, France and Germany.
Italeri Cessna O-2A Skymaster USAF - (ex Testors), 1/48, 814
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
$32
From Testors molds. Includes decals for two USAF aircraft. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried and NOTE: missing one rocket pod half. Otherwise complete with all other parts, decals and instructions present.
Hudson Miniatures 1903 Rambler Old Timers, 1/16
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
$89
Very well detailed large 1/16 kit from 1949. Features plastic wheels, lights, other accessories and wooden main parts and occasionally metal parts and cardstock. Although all of Hudson's 1/16 kits have excellent detail, this one has even more detail than usual thanks to Hudson's engineers having access to the actual car. This kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts, plans and instructions. Hudson Miniatures created a very popular line of automobile kits in a constant 1/16 scale shortly after WWII. The kits sold very well...so well that you could argue that Gowland & Gowland borrowed Hudson's subject matter for their ground-breaking 'Highway Pioneers.' The Hudson Miniatures 'Old Timers' even spawned a line of imitators, with Fador's 'Smallster' being one of the better in quality. Sales did drop on the appearance and popularity of the much smaller (and less accurate) Gowland/Revell 'Highway Pioneers' in 1951. When the all-injection molded Gowland kits proved not to be a passing fad, Hudson quickly planned and released his own all-plastic, small-scale competition called 'Lil' Old Timers Quickie Kits.' The kits were of excellent quality, but it was too little too late. Additionally, sales of the excellent wooden kits faltered further in the next few years with the introduction of accurate, 1/24 and 1/32 all-plastic cars in the mid 1950s. This forced Hudson to discontinue the wood kits and the plastic line was sold to Revell and subsequently re-released. Today, these excellent, big 1/16 kits are often the only model available of these early automobiles. In the mid 1960s Aurora thought so highly of Hudson Miniatures that they purchased the wood kit assets and released a very small number of these in all-plastic models.
Beechnut Commonwealth Wirraway - Bagged, 1/72, 1003
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
$22
Still factory sealed. Bagged kit with header. Very limited production injection molded kit. Details such as interior are not included in Beechnut kits but detailed drawings are provided. They contain all basic parts (canopy, wings, fuselage, engine, prop, elevator and rudder) but you must scratch build or use your spares box for the rest.